Contact Info
Email:ctwomey@nps.edu
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Office Address:Glasgow Hall, Room 376
Associate Professor
Expertise: International Relations, Asian Security, Chinese Foreign Policy, Strategic Deterrence
Christopher P. Twomey is a tenured Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he focuses on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian security issues. He authored The Military Lens: Doctrinal Differences and Deterrence Failure in Sino-American Relations (Cornell, 2010) and articles in journals such as Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, The Washington Quarterly, and Asian Survey. He has edited two books and published chapters in a dozen others, including, “China’s Nuclear Doctrine and Deterrence Concept” (Bolt and Smith, eds., China's Strategic Arsenal: Worldview, Doctrine, and Systems (Georgetown University Press, 2021). He has consulted for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the State Department, INDOPACOM, RAND, NBR, and others. He led a track 2 diplomatic engagement with China centering on strategic issues for fifteen years following its inception in 2005. Dr. Twomey received his BA and Masters degrees from the University of California San Diego, his Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT, and conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard.
